ZIP 20186: $240.2 million on 11,572 FEC lines

A small-count ZIP with a large dollar total

$240,249,339 on 11,572 lines is a concentration pattern. Rural and small-city ZIPs can still host joint fundraising committees, PACs, and a small number of high-dollar itemizations that dominate the mean. FEC.gov does not label which of those produced $240,249,339. LobbyVault reports the sum and the count the extract contains.

Eleven thousand five hundred seventy-two itemizations is a short list next to D.C. and Manhattan ZIPs that show 100,000-plus lines. Quote both numbers. Dropping 11,572 makes 20186 look like a mass-giving ZIP. Dropping $240,249,339 hides the scale. The table supports both facts and no motive.

This aggregate has no party split and no unique-donor count. Reading Warrenton as a partisan stronghold from a ZIP total would be a category error. The field is a five-digit code on Schedule A, sourced from FEC.gov.

Fauquier mail versus a resident census

USPS 20186 serves Warrenton. FEC contributor ZIPs are not geocoded to farms or town lots. A committee that uses a Warrenton post-office box, a PAC with a 20186 street address, or an individual who lists that ZIP will all add to $240,249,339 when that is what was filed. The total is not “what 20186 residents donated” unless you add a filter the Commission did not apply.

The 11,572-line count can include repeat itemizations. Without a donor headcount in the packet, this page does not guess how many people sit behind the list. Open the ZIP 20186 FEC page for named receipts.

Limits of $240,249,339

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Virginia state-office filings are omitted. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted even if they mention a Virginia race. Cite $240,249,339 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 20186.

Because the mean line is large, one amended joint-fundraising schedule can move a visible share of the total. Use the live ZIP 20186 FEC page after restatements. This guide is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Committee mail in Warrenton, Virginia is why the residential reading of $240,249,339 fails. A PAC, a joint fundraising committee, or a work address that lists 20186 is counted. FEC.gov stored the ZIP that was filed. LobbyVault summed it. Recoding those rows out of $240,249,339 would be a new dataset.

20186 versus Northern Virginia volume ZIPs

The all-ZIP directory ranks the same series. McLean, Arlington, and D.C. codes nearby in dollar rank often show far more lines. 20186’s 11,572 receipts are the contrast: similar federal dollars can arrive through different filing shapes. FEC.gov publishes the receipts. It does not rank which county is more politically intense.

Independent expenditures mentioning a race near Warrenton, Virginia can be paid by a committee with a different ZIP. Those disbursements do not move $240,249,339. Mixing independent-expenditure tables with this ZIP total double-counts some activity and misses other activity. Keep the series separate.

How to follow the money on LobbyVault

The ZIP 20186 FEC page is the live table for $240,249,339 and 11,572. The all-ZIP directory ranks other codes. The donor directory lists names on itemized rows. If a later extract disagrees with these printed figures, the filing on FEC.gov controls. No income or horse-country narrative is attached to the ZIP field.

Title, H1, and table on the live hub should show the same $240,249,339 and 11,572 this guide cites. If they do not, the hub was rebuilt from a newer extract. Trust the hub over this paragraph. Guides are snapshots of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

How to cite ZIP 20186 without inflating Warrenton, Virginia

The accurate citation is: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 20186 total $240,249,339 across 11,572 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Shorthand such as “Warrenton, Virginia donated $240,249,339” drops the itemized-only limit and the PAC-address caveat. Keep both limits in the sentence at least once.

A mean of about $20,760 describes a concentration ZIP. It does not describe a median resident. Because this packet has no unique-donor count, 11,572 stays a line count. Researchers who need persons must match names on the ZIP 20186 FEC page rather than dividing $240,249,339 by a guessed household count.

ZIP 20186 will keep attracting “how much did Warrenton give” queries because searchers use ZIP as a proxy for a neighborhood. FEC.gov does not use ZIP that way. It stores a five-digit contributor field. $240,249,339 across 11,572 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $20,760 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. The PAC and joint-fundraising caveat is in the source note and belongs in any careful citation. Use the all-ZIP directory only to compare other codes on the same series. Use the donor directory for names. If the live hub reprints a different $240,249,339 or 11,572, the newer FEC extract wins and this snapshot is stale.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 20186?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 20186 total $240,249,339 across 11,572 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Warrenton, Virginia. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $240,249,339 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 20186?

LobbyVault counts 11,572 itemized contributions for ZIP 20186. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 11,572 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $240,249,339.

Does ZIP 20186 include only residents of Warrenton, Virginia?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. PAC mail drops, joint fundraising committees, and office addresses in Warrenton, Virginia can be part of $240,249,339 when 20186 is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 11,572-line count follows the same rule. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 20186 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $240,249,339 and 11,572 lines for ZIP 20186. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from Warrenton, Virginia are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $20,760 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.